Two Haas Racing cars confiscated by NASCAR

After responding to a report from others in the garage that the No. 66 and No. 70 Haas Racing machines had illegally mounter upper wing brackets, NASCAR officials went to the garage, inspected the two cars and then confiscated them.

The two teams will have to go to their backup cars, if they are legal, and start from the back of the field.

Kerry Tharp, NASCAR Director of Communications for Competition, said the additional penalties could be announced later this week. When asked how NASCAR became aware of the infractions since cars are not typically inspected before Saturday practice, Tharp said, "It was brought to our attention, we followed up and we took the two cars. The garage is a fairly self policing area and we follow up on information we get and we are constantly inspecting racecars and that was the situation with this."